- If you’re still actively suicidal or engaging in dangerous behaviors.
- If emotional regulation is inconsistent (you manage for a month but crash hard afterward).
- If you haven’t fully addressed the underlying trauma that fuels your depression or emotional difficulties.
It might make sense to continue therapy longer or shift into a different phase, like trauma-focused DBT, or individual treatment in these cases.
Stopping therapy ≠ ending self-work
Even when you finish DBT, life will still throw curveballs.
You’ll likely keep practicing mindfulness, emotional regulation, and interpersonal skills long after formal therapy ends.
It’s more like graduating since you’ve learned the tools, and now you use them to live your life, even if it’s messy sometimes.
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